Parentification
November 2025
When you had to be the grown-up: Understand what happened, how it shows up now, and how to heal.
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When you had to be the grown-up: Understand what happened, how it shows up now, and how to heal.
Use this checklist to help you determine if you were parentified as a child.
These scripts will help you bring up parentification and (hopefully) minimize defensiveness or minimization from the other side.
You might have been parentified — and in this video, Whitney explains what that really means.
When you’re forced to grow up too soon, you learn to survive in ways that most adults never have to.
Parentification might be causing you to feel responsible for or fix all the problems you didn't solve in multiple areas of your life.
Small steps you can take to help you release control and set small, manageable boundaries in your daily life.
This worksheet is for adults who were parentified as children and are now ready to reclaim their boundaries.
Parentified children can grow up with a warped sense of boundaries that carries into adulthood.
The right therapist will help you understand that you developed incredible survival skills being parentified and that you also deserve to relax now.
These books are great for adults who are now trying to heal from growing up too soon.
How children become their parent's therapist.
Scripts to get you started with setting boundaries with a parent who emotionally parentified you.
Recording of this month's Q&A session with Whitney.